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A great song is the perfect marriage of words and music. Great jazz is the perfect marriage of freedom and control. A great arrangement is the perfect marriage of singer and orchestra. Can you think of another kind of perfect marriage in music? I can.

Turntable For One Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday 10:00 PM WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

Don’t forget: Turntable For One is the gift that keeps on giving with podcasts on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange

I couldn’t make it into the station tonight, but, lucky you, the Archive gods picked the show “Wake-Up Calls” instead of my first choice, “A Musical Tribute To Incisions That Don’t Heal.” Maybe next time.

I should be back live this Saturday; check back on Wednesday for a hint about the musical theme.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD or Album Title

THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE / Sue Raney /“Happiness Is A Warm Sue Raney”

Saturday night’s show will be a program from the vast and qualitatively unfathomable Turntable For One archives. The results are known only to the accounting firm of Ernst and Young, but those number crunchers won’t return any of my calls. So your guess is as good as mine.

Every great song is a marriage between words and music; every great recording is a marriage between artist and arranger. But what about performances which represent yet another kind of marriage? I’ve got an hour of those planned for Saturday!